More old hip-hop commercials

Dr. Dre's St. Ides commercialSt. Ides radio spot featuring the WuBobby Brown Budweiser commercialNew Edition Coke commercialIce Cube for St. IdesKriss Kross commercialSnoop and Lee iaccoca for Chrysler

what is swag?

This one phrase has been killing me since people have started saying it. Everyone has "swag" now, you even have "swagger rappers" and "swagger jackers", yet I don't have a clear idea of what you all find swagger is. See to me there aren't but two or three people who have what I would consider swagger.That's the first man who comes to mind. I mean Puff isn't a rapper, he's a sort of entertainer,

Hip-Hop Marketing

Rappers and hip-hop celebrities today are huge cash cows. They hawk everything from pre-paid credit cards to soda, shoes, and snacks. For a long time however marketers didn't believe in the power of the urban pitchman. The first prominent pitchman was MC Hammer, just look at this old pepsi commercial:Lol @ "Proper".Here is Hammer hawking chicken:and who can forget hammer endorsing BK's.Man those

Finding My Lane

Now I have been perusing other hip-hop blogs recently to check out the competition and to share love when it is deserving. Most of the blogs I have seen have'nt seen as much original commentary and/or ideas that I would like.Seeing that and looking at some of my opinions/criticisms of hip-hop culture and music would leave people to see me as some sort of new-age hipster or overtly conscious type

Award Shows

It's funny, I wrote this post before the grammys and I know people are salivating over the "sweagger like us" performance because of the people who were in the performance and the lack of standards that perceive today's hip-hop fans have. But on tot he post.What happened to award shows? they used to be so hot, now they are afterthoughts. The last "BET" awards were hot garbage. The production

I am not alone...

Now sometimes when it comes to certain feelings about today's hip-hop I feel alone. I mean the young generation is taking over, fine. I feel bad because I wasn't able to pass down hip-hop history to anyone but my sister yet and she doesn't like most of the older stuff I force her to listen to. I can't wait until my son is old enough for me to really show him how this all got started.However, a

Speaking of female rappers

Here goes this chick again. I didn't know she was from the DC area cause I don't follow video hoes like that, but she is terrible. Following in the footsteps of Salt N pepa and Queen Latifah she is not. Once again I see someone making a mockery of hip-hop all for the love of money. Why can't she just get to the porn career and get it over with. Angie baby, no one wnats you to open ya mouth unless